Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-08-04

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friends hereand in G racehaln. On Sunday
evening he occupied the ptlpif in the Mo-
ravian Church, this place. ..
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A good flag pavement has been placed
along the vacant lots on the South side OF
Main street from Rouzer's Branch to the NJ,
v. RI r.
SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS is not thing
to- be sncezed at no, no! Yet when all Is
reported we will have that sum, net, to hand
over to the Guardian Hose Company as the
proceeds of our fair.
PUBLIC SALE.-Rev, G. G. Lanlus will sell
valuable lot of personal property at the
parsonage IN Graceham on Tuesday, August
10th. See bills.
SEVENTH ANNUAL ExcunsIoN.-The Luth.
ssn Sunday School Of this place, will make
their Seventh Annual Excursion to Pen: Mar
on Thursday, August 18th. The excursion
train will start from Union Bridge and take
Up passengers at all intervening stations
Cor time and rates see excursion bills.
Rp,,a1oi1s.-The Harvest Home service
Will be held in Trinity Reformed Church
next Sundayanorning. The monthly meet
ing Of the Cleaners BeneAcent Society in the
evening. The public is cordially invited.
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That fine blooded colt belonging to Mr..
N, Clay Cramer of which they have had
great deal of trouble in breaking has been
broke to drive nicely, through the hands Of
Mr. Henry Foreman. He is certainly the
making of fine driving horse.
Letters remaining the Postofflce at Me-
chancstown, Frederick Co., Nd. Aug. l, ~
Boring, Lev, Mr.. Cole, T. Tel, Op.; Far.
row, Joseph Mrs.; Heathcote, l.. G. Esq !;
Kummel, Geo, Mr.; McNeal Flora Miss
Palmer, Jos. r. Mrs.; Shank, John Mr.. !;
Willhidc, c. A. +. l.. Boblitz, I. NJ
ToURNAMENT.-Poster are up for Tour
nament and Dance near Rocky Ridge on
Saturday, August 18th, Handsome prizes
will be awarded and good orchestra has
been secured to furnish music for the dane
ing. The committee is an excellent is an ex'
celent one and the occasion will be an en-.
joyablc one.
Our FAIR A SUCCESS are gratificd
TO be able to report our Firemen's Fair sue
cess the receipts to date reach the hand
some sum, $l1eo.22, and net profit OF $7oo
is indicated This will place the Guardian
Hose Company pretty squarely on its feet
financially and there will be little trouble
thcrcaftcr.for it to maintain itself,
Rev. Earnest McGill, formerly of Catoctin
Furnace, and son.in-law of Or. WmsG. Nc
phcrson, of that place quite i'll at his home
in st. Michacls, Talbot county.-Car'00
Ntns.
rive are gratifcd to he able to contradict
the aboye.s Mr. McGill has been seen upon
our streets several times during the past
week He is stopping at DR.. McPhcrson's.
Ed. CLARION,
TUE LANTERN CoHTEsT-Thc contest tor
the railroad lantern between conductor
Lawrence of the Emmtsburg railroad and
brakeman Buckingham Of the w. Nd rail-
,o.d for the benefit of the Firemcn's Fair in
this place was decided on Saturday evening
last.
MIR. buckingham won the lantern having
received $50 votes to 22O for Mr. Lawrence
The votes were 10 cents each making the
proceeds 1880 1t is a handsome lantern
and cost $1,000.
RANDOM REpoRTrNG.-Th Frederick cor.
respondent of the Baltimore Herald is as
careless concerning facts as the reporter for
the american has proven to have been IN
the past. In the last Sunday Herald we find
an item concerning our Burial Case Co. IN
which it was stated that work would begin
on (ast) Monday morning and that an 80
horsepower engine had been put in position.
The facts are that a 2O-horsepower engine
is in position, less than half of the machinery
here and that fully thirty days will have
passed before work begins.
We clip the following from the Frederick
Times. How accurate the items are may be
learned by reading this paper.
The fair which has been in progress in
Mechanicstewn for the past two weeks will
close tonight. The proceeds, which Will
amount to about $500, will be devoted to
equipping hose company for fire purposes.
The pipes for the water supply to Mechan-
icstown have arrived and the work oflaying
the same will be begun Monday.
The Caskct factory Of Messrs Walker q
Keyser will begin operations about the first
of ncxt;month. An eighty horsepower en-
CINE, intended to run the machinery at the
factory arrived to-day. The factory will
give employment to about twenty men.
THERMOMETERS. TO the end that an &C
curate register of heat be obtained it is nee
essarv that certain conditions be observed
else the reading of thermometer is value
less.
A thermometer should be in sheltered
place and should be protected from radlated
or reflected heat and where there is free
passage Of air.
A thermometer may be placed in the
shade" and yet it may be above hcate,
pavement or roof, Or it may receive iron
walls opposite an amount of reflected heat
that renders the test most unsatisfactory.
We know two thermometers which whcT